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Queen of the Lakes has been used as the name of three vessels that sailed on the Great Lakes, but none was the longest on the lakes at the time. The first was a three-masted Canadian schooner built in 1853 as Robert Taylor, measuring 133 feet (41 m). It was renamed Queen of the Lakes sometime before 1864. [2]
SS William Edenborn was a 497 ft (151 m) long Great Lakes bulk freighter that was built in 1900 and she was given the title Queen of the Lakes due to her length. She sailed from 1900, to 1962 when she was sunk as a breakwater at Cleveland , Ohio where she was buried under 39 feet of dredgings from the Cuyahoga River .
Working schooner providing tours for up to 150 passengers. 3 masted topsail schooner [12] American Spirit: 1991 Washington, D.C. Education and excursion vessel 2 masted gaff [3] Amistad: 2000 New Haven, Connecticut: Education vessel 2 masted gaff, square topsail [13] Anne (formerly Tantra Schooner) 1978 Privately owned by Reid Stowe: 2 masted gaff
Queen of Nassau United States: 2 July 1926 A patrol boat that flooded and sank off Florida. USS R-12 United States Navy: 12 June 1943 An R-class submarine that foundered south of the Florida Keys. USS S-16 United States Navy: 3 April 1945
The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. The ship was en route from Bay City, Michigan, to South Chicago, Illinois, with a cargo of bulk salt.
The steamship Col. James M. Schoonmaker began life on 1 July 1911 at the Great Lakes Engineering Works in Ecorse, Michigan. At the time of her launch she took the title of Queen of the Lakes which is given to the biggest ship on the Great Lakes. She became the flagship of the Shenango Furnace Company.
Maritime historians recently found the historic schooner Margaret A. Muir, which was lost in a terrible gale on the morning of September 30, 1893, just a few miles off a Wisconsin harbor town.
The Queen of the Lake on Loch Tay from the Dundee Evening Telegraph Thursday 04 July 1929 Queen of the Lake was built by Ailsa Shipbuilding Company of Troon. She was shipped in parts to Killin and drawn on a barge to Dalreb near Kenmore before reassembly and launching on 19 June 1907 by the Marchioness of Breadalbane.